In the context of the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) at the Singapore ETH Centre (SEC), the Professorship for Architecture and Digital Fabrication of Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler has built up a unique laboratory to research the potentials of robotic processes for the design and construction of high rise typologies in Southeast Asia. The research team of Module II is representing the chair at FCL and has built a unique laboratory to investigate how computational design, coupled with robotic technologies has the potential to liberate this interesting building type from its still dominant, but culturally and technologically obsolete subjection to the economies of scale, of serialisation, and standardisation.

Design of Robotic Fabricated High Rises 2 is being conducted for the second consecutive year. In 2013 it is organised as collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture of the National University of Singapore (NUS). While the first year Robotic Fabricated High Rises 1 focused on experimentation with the robotic facilities in order to define material and fabrication processes that are suitable for 1:50 scaled model building, the second year builds upon previous experiences and is more geared towards an evolution of architectural typologies.